Powder-distributor.



Patented Aug. 17, 1915.

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@Wm M WILLIAM E. LEE, E EocHEsTEE, NEW YoEK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

POWDER-DISTRIBUT OR.

Application filed April 4, 1914. Serial No. 829,465.

To all whom it may/concern:

Be it "known that 1, WILLIAM R. LEE, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Powder- Distributors, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanyingldrawings.

' The present invention re ates to powder distributors and an object of-the same is to provide a construction from which powder 'may be discharged onto ,any desired surfaceand then spread or distributed over such surface. i

To this and other ends the invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts all of which will be hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the powder distributor constructed in accordance with the present invention and particularly designed for distributing powder over white shoes; Fig. 2 shows the distributor opened; Fig, 3 is a section on the line aa, Fig. 2; and; Fig. 4 is a similar section through another embodiment of the invention designed for distributing powder over the human face.

According to'the present invention there is provided a powder pocket 1 preferably formed between two walls 2 and 3 of flexible sheet material through which powder cannot pass, the upper one of said sheets acting as the rubbing br distributing surface and being in Figs; 2 and 3, a sheet of felt, and in Fig. 4, a sheet of chamois. The sheets may be secured together along their marginal edges by stitches 4, except at one side, where the sheet 3 is the sheet 2 and carries a flexible flap 5 which is secured to the projecting portion of the sheet 3 and overlaps the free edge of the sheet 2 to act as a-closure for the pocket, the ends of the flap 5 being secured by the stitches 4 which unite the sheets 2 and 3.

The powder pocket may be provided with a plurality of small openings which may be formed as in Figs. 1 to 3 by a large opening 6 in the rubbing element 2 closed by a reticulated sheet 7 the openings of which permit the ready escape of powder from the pocket 1, or a plurality of openings 6- may be formed in the rubbing element 2 as shown in Fig. 4, the rubbing element, in this instance,

being a piece of chamois so that the powder projected beyond distributor may be used for distributing powder over the face. 1

To the end that the device may be properly held on the hand, there is provided a Patented. Aug. '17, 1,915.

hand engaging element, preferably in the form of a .wall composed of two sheets of material 8 and 9 arranged in parallel relation and secured together at their margins by a binding strip 10 which is also extended around the sheets 2 and 3 andv held by the stitches 4, the'latter also securing the sheets 8 and 9 to the. sheets 2 and 3 thereby forming a pocket 11 in which the hand of the user is adapted to be introduced for applying and distributing the powder. The sheets 8 and 9 are extended beyond the sheet 3 to provide a flap 12 which may carry a socket member 13 for engagement with the resilient head 14 in order that the device as a whole may be rolled or folded and secured in the position shown in Fig. 1, in which in- I stance, a portion of the rubbing surface acts to close the openings in the pocket to prevent the escape of the powder when the device is not in use.

In using the device, it is opened to the po sition shown in Fig. 2 and the powder in the pocket is sifted through the openings in the pocket after which the rubbing employed for distributing thepowder. The embodiment shown in Fig, 3, is designed more particularly for coating white shoes with a powder,

while the embodiment shown in, Fig. 4' is designed for distributing powder over the human face.

.What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is surface is 1. A powder distributor embodying two flexiblewalls providing a pocket between them, said walls being. secured together along their marginal edges except along one edge and one of the-walls being extended beyond the other at such separated edge, and a flap carried by said extended portion and overlapping the other portion, of the flap being permanently secured at the marginal edges so that the flap acts as a closure for the pocket.

2. A powder distributor embodylng two flexible walls providing a pocket between them, one of said walls preventing the pasthe ends.

sage of the powder therethrough and having a rubbing surface provided with an opening through discharged from the pocket, flexible wall providing a pocket in and a third which which the powder may be.

the hand of the user maybe introduced, said wall being extended at one end beyond the other walls to provide a flap to overlap the other end of the device when the latter is rolled, the powder pocket being provided with a filling opening at its end adjacent the flap so that the flap assistsin preventing the escape ofmaterial from the pocket when said flap is folded over the other end of the device.

3. A powder distributor embodying a flexible wall, a second wall separated from said flexible wall to provide a pocket for the hand of a user, a third flexible wall combined with the second named wall to provide a powder pocket and formed with a rubbing surface and with an opening for the discharge of the powder, the first named wall being extended beyond the other two walls to provide a flap, and fastening means for securing said distributor in a rolled condition.

WILLIAM R. LEE. Witnesses:

HAROLD H. SIMMs, ADA M. WHITMORE. 

